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About Old Testament - Zhang Zhaoying

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In the "Old Testament", the story of Jonah spending three days in the belly of the whale, as a kind of prefiguration, was fulfilled in the life story of Christ in the "New Testament".Prefiguration as a clue,connect the relationship between metaphor and revelation in the Old and New Testaments.In the solo exhibition of artist Zhang Zhaoying,"Prefiguration" as a clue again, interspersed in the series of works of "Myth Party", "Eastern Trick" and "Letters".From the glorious past in the spiritual realm to the present reality, "Prefiguration"make people aware of the prophecies and the past things that are still being repeated.

At the same time, the boundaries between the mother tongue culture and the non-native language culture,the boundaries between each non-native language cultures,have all been eliminated in the works.Although in Jacques Derrid’s view, everyone must appropriate a language, and “all cultures are constructed by unilaterally imposing the‘politics’of a language”.However, Zhang Zhaoying is not limited to a single cultural identity. In addition to a culture that is homogenous with his mother tongue, he also has a non-discriminatory attitude towards various cultures.Bilingual and even multilingual language learning,and the popularity of machine translation and the improvement of its accuracy,like the artist, the viewer no longer minds to understand or even love a certain culturally mixed work that suits his preferences.So, can this series of works itself be an attempt to invent the "enough unfamiliar language", "make it no longer be reoccupied by the laws of norms, body, and language given"?

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May 5, 2020

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(Series: works with no series), 2019painting, 2000x1330mmARTIST: Zhang Zhaoying

(Series: works with no series), 2019painting, 900x600mmARTIST: Zhang Zhaoying